Innovations in material science are as essential to modern life as indoor plumbing―and go about as unnoticed.

For example, innovations in semiconducting devices continue to enable the transmission of more information, faster and through smaller hardware―such as through a device that fits in the palms of our hands. 

Through the windows of the Wood Dining Room, the trees were in full tri-colored glory and a trio of hawks carved effortless turns on the wind currents. But no one was paying any attention. Instead, participants in the Robotics Learning Workshop sat in silence, fingers hovered over laptops, focused only on the speaker at the front of the room.

The American Society of Civil Engineers presented numerous awards, including three to Lehigh civil and environmental engineers, during the 2019 ASCE Convention, held October 10-13 in Miami. 

We’ve known for decades that catalysts speed up the reaction that reduces harmful industrial emissions. And now, we know exactly how they do it.

A recent paper by Israel Wachs, the G. Whitney Snyder Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, describes the mechanism, and was the inside back cover story of the September 2, 2019, issue of Angewandte Chemie, a journal of the German Chemical Society.

PPL Corp. supervising engineer Scott Richard Thomas ’10G ’15 MBA knows the power of connections. 

His nine-years-and-counting career at a major U.S. energy company took off following a research project he did with the utility—a key part of his graduate studies in Lehigh University’s Energy Systems Engineering (ESE) professional master’s program. 

Ganesh Balasubramanian, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, is one of the first users of Frontera, the fifth most powerful supercomputer in the world. 

Working with big data doesn’t require wearing a lab coat, but it still can be messy.

Take it from bioengineer Jeanna Kwon ’17, a consultant at Prognos, a health care AI company based in New York City that’s focused on improving the prediction of disease—and our power to prevail over it—by analyzing patient laboratory diagnostic data.

Climate change will ultimately affect our bridges. But to what extent?

That is the essential question addressed by researchers David Yang and Dan M. Frangopol in a paper recently published in the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering.